posted 2006/06/17 at 22:12
New York Daily News -- Keith Olbermann forced to apologize for obscenity-laden e-mail responses to viewers
Ever since our local cable company finally started carrying MSNBC several months ago, I've been a fairly regular viewer of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, in part because I was a big fan of Keith's back in his ESPN days (and his first stint on MSNBC), and in part because I think Keith runs a pretty good show, getting to a lot of stories that the mainstream media doesn't get to, and not being afraid to point out when right-wing figureheads do stupid things. (Keith is pretty much the only nationally televised fact-checker for Bill O'Reilly.)
That being said, stories like this just show that Keith, too, can do stupid things himself. I can understand Keith's anger at the kind of vitriolic comments his statements engender, especially when the people making those comments are the kind of people who think that if you disagree with Dubya/Robertson/Falwell even in the slightest amount then you're a godless Communist traitor. Doubtlessly the comments Keith wrote those e-mails in response to were even dumber than Keith's responses, but that still doesn't excuse Keith for writing responses like he wrote. Especially in this day and age, given all the stories that have both been passed around offices and made national news, you'd think Keith would know better to write stuff like that when it's so easy for that kind of stuff to quickly make its way around the world.
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